ALTON — A temporary drawdown of Wentworth Pond, affecting the Merrymeeting River and Lake Watershed, has been reduced 12 feet to 2.5 feet, aft…
A home might appear fine, but toxic contamination isn’t always evident by sight or smell.
The history of National Water Quality Month dates back to two landmark pieces of legislation passed by Congress in the early 1970s. The Clean …
Philadelphia’s tap water meets federal drinking water standards but falls far short of public health goals when it comes to cancer-causing chemicals.
While cholera launched modern epidemiology and has nearly disappeared in many countries, the disease never went away. It has instead retreated to the places least equipped to fight it.
Culligan reports that concerns over tap water quality are rising as new contaminants like PFAS and microplastics are discovered, prompting increased scrutiny and regulatory attention.
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has channelled over $223 million in state and federal dollars to PFAS response efforts over the last seven years. But extensive investment, and work on the ground, is still needed to keep abreast of the man-made problem, according to a May report from the department. The report, presented […]
Engineers at the University of Texas developed the designer threads that harvest water directly from the air.
Although three in four Americans polled say they “care a lot” about what they put in their bodies, 35% have not thought about one essential part of their health in the past year: the quality of their tap water. A survey of 2,000 general population Americans found that at a time when most claim to […]
Your body likely contains an accumulation of various PFAS types, making it difficult to trace them to their sources.